__First Grade: Exploring the Story of Our World Through Maps
I. Topic
• Content Area : What is the story of my world?
• Content Statement/Concept Statement: Exploring the meaning of “place”
II. Objectives / Expected Learner Outcomes
- Students will understand what place is and where their home is located on a map
- Students will look at artists who use maps to create works of art
- The student will use a map of Richmond that they have altered to create a self-reflective piece.
III. Standards of Education
• Related National Standards for Visual Arts Education
Students use visual structures and functions of art to communicate ideas
• Related Virginia Visual Arts Standards of Learning
1.1 The student will recognize and discuss various solutions to a single art problem.
1.15 The student will view works of art and describe similarities and differences between them.
IV. Student Group Targeted
• Grade Level and Group: 1st Grade
• Prerequisite skills/knowledge: cutting, folding
V. Time Required
Two 45-minute sessions
VI. Materials and Resources
- Maps, Water, Oil pastel, Glue, Paper
VII. Itinerary and Strategies
• Key terms/vocabulary to be introduced: maps, repurposing, sense of place
• Motivation and explanations: Students will view maps and observe the art of Elizabeth LeCourt and Annabel Faraday and discuss it. They will respond visually to the work.
• Demonstration/guided practice: Create a work of art inspired by repurposed maps. Alter the map before using it in the final piece.
• Student independent practice/activity: Students will create their own image, based on how they connect this to their own lives and a sense of place.
VIII. Evaluation Strategies
- The students will pay attention while I am presenting works by Elizabeth LeCourt and Annabel Faraday and show interest in their art and use of maps within their pieces.
- The students will alter a map of their own
- The students will apply and incorporate their altered map into an individual, self-reflective piece.